0:01: Rabbi Laura Winer shares about some discussions she’s had with youth regarding sexuality5:29: Bruce introduces the theme of the episode and Heather Godsey and Lara Blackwood Pickrel6:50: Part 1 of Bruce interview with Heather Godsey and Lara Blackwood Pickrel18:53: Bruce and Carol reflect on Part 130:44: Part 2 of Bruce interview with Heather Godsey and Lara Blackwood Pickrel40:47: Bruce and Carol reflect on Part 253:15: Bruce and Carol are joined by Makeesha Fisher for a discussion of intimacy and social media’s impact on our perception of others.1:14:28: Promo for next week’s episode: Carol speaks with David Batstone about human trafficking and his book Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade–and How We Can Fight It

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Comments

Good discussion. Hope lots of people listen. Really liked comments by Rabbi Winer, Heather Godsey and Lara Blackwood Pickrel. They made excellent sense. It would be interesting to know how the latter two's comments would be different for teens from what they wrote for young adults.

I wish you had told us a bit more about who Makeesha Fisher is. I was not familiar with GENEERATE magazine, although I will check it out now from your link above

When I was a biology teacher In the late seventies (yeah, I know, a long time ago) we were trained at a local university and then developed a human sexuality curriculum for our 10th graders. It went very well and I learned a lot about what teens then were struggling with as I taught it. Some issues (e.g. body image) are still the same, but today with more openness about human sexualities in the media more misinformation abounds, as you all pointed out in the discussion. Our culture of text messaging and other social media has added a whole new dimension to dealing with sexuality and perhaps you can do a show on this sometime.

Hope your listeners have had the chance to see the Vagina Monologues at some point. It deals with language and values and culture so well. Glad you referenced it Carol.

I raised 3 boys and now they have daughters and sons. The cycle of education continues.

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